This open source project lets you sync Withings data to other apps without a subscription
When it was revealed earlier this month that Withings would require new users to subscribe to a Withings Plus subscription to sync heath data from the...
Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Holdings is acquiring ADT for $7.6 billion
The Joshua Kushner-led Thrive Holdings is acquiring ADT in an all-cash deal valued at $7.6 billion. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter...
To anyone listening closely to what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been saying over the past couple of years, this week felt like the clearest sign y...
The NYT Cooking app is testing AI recipe modifications
The New York Times is testing a new AI feature for its Cooking app that helps users to modify recipes, and it's sparked some drama among users. NYT Co...
There’s one week left to preorder the Ocarina of Time remake for $10 off
The long-awaited remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo Switch 2 launches next Thursday, November 5th. In other words, you ha...
Amazon’s AI shopping assistant can now edit your grocery lists and gift registries
Amazon is adding several new features to its AI shopping assistant, including ways to create, edit, and move items between shopping lists and gift reg...
Today on Decoder, I’m joined by Joey Brookhart, an analyst at the chip and AI research firm SemiAnalysis, to help me dig into the story inside the num...
This $149 digital candle uses AI to accurately simulate a flickering flame
After engineering a flexible version of Tetris that could be wrapped around a magazine, Kevin Bates' latest creation is a digital candle that uses a c...
Apple finally combined a toaster and a refrigerator
For more than 15 years, Apple has had a pretty simple answer to the idea of a touchscreen MacBook: no. Yesterday, Apple finally decided to think diffe...
Anthropic’s business plan: Build God or die trying
The Anthropic S-1 seems to have provided the financial justification for the company to spend as much as it possibly can on compute. If you are the ki...
DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for around $17 billion
DoorDash has announced that it's buying Instacart in a deal valued at approximately $17 billion. The acquisition will give DoorDash a bigger presence ...
A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services ...
Anduril now says its BlueChip laptop will meet Buy American standards at launch
On Tuesday, defense contractor Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm announced a partnership to build laptops entirely in the United States, starting with a ...
Adam Mosseri says negativity around AI is ‘going to get worse’
Asked about AI and the trend of college students booing tech CEOs at graduation ceremonies, Instagram head Adam Mosseri acknowledged in an interview t...
A hacker stole more than 40,000 DHS employee records
A hacker stole a trove of personal information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The breach exposes the names, job titles, phone numbers...
Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPC
The MPC Sample Key isn't even formally announced yet, but Akai is already showing off what the modding community is cooking up through vibe coding. Ak...
Readwise is taking on Kindle and Kobo for ebook supremacy
For the last several years, Readwise has been building tools for power readers. There's the eponymous product, Readwise, which stores and categorizes ...
Google says its investments in AI are driving more searches
Google parent company Alphabet says that its AI investments are leading to a big growth in searches year-over-year, as noted in its Q3 2026 earnings t...
Microsoft reveals strong cloud growth amid financial reporting overhaul
Microsoft just posted the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $92.3 billion in revenue and a net income of $33...
Apple charges $14,549 for a fully specced touchscreen MacBook Pro
With an OLED display and touchscreen capabilities, it's no surprise that the new MacBook Pro Apple announced today is more expensive than the MBP anno...
Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity
Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announ...
Foreign gadget bans: all the news about the FCC’s clampdown on Chinese tech
What do drones, routers, and Roombas have in common? The US government wants to keep Chinese ones from entering the country. They’re the first consume...
Apple announced a new iPad Mini with a larger OLED display this week, and we've just gotten to try it out at Apple's "Pro and tell" event. It's an iPa...
Brendan Carr plans to let prisons jam cellphone signals
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced the agency will vote on November 19th on rules that would allow prisons to use signal jamming. Radiofrequency jamm...
Nearly two years after LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their latest smart TVs would include access to Microsoft's Copilot, the company is en...
Surprise: The Google Xreal glasses debut at a Meta-beating $1,099
In this economy, how often does a product get less expensive before its debut? That just happened with the Google / Xreal Aura, the lightweight 95-gra...
Apple finally showed off its 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops that have the PROLED XDR display at the October 2026 "Pro and Tell" event. The long-a...
Touchscreen laptops are nothing new in the Windows world, but Apple has only just announced its first MacBook with a touchscreen. Apple isn't rushing ...
Apple ‘Pro and Tell’ event: everything announced this week
Apple closed out its week of product announcements with a "Pro and Tell" event on Wednesday, where it took the wraps off its long-rumored touchscreen ...
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